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A. H. STEPHENS.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUGJi. 1919- 7 1,324,080. Patented 19420.9,1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 9, 1919.

Application filed August 5, 1919. Serialv No. 315,574.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'ANsoN H. STEPHENS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the .county of Cook and State of Illinois, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles. A buckle involving the invention, can be used with advantage in any of the connections where those of the ordinary kind are employed. I have found the buckle in practice, however, of especial advantage when utilized as an adjunct of an overgaiter it being associated in this case with the strap which is disposed under the shoe sole of the wearer of the gaiter. I provide a buckle which is simple in construction, capable of inexpensive manufacture, and which effectively and positively holds a strap closed against accidental opening.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of the present specification I have shown in detail a form of embodiment of the invention which I will set forth fully in the following description. I am notrestricted to this particular showing. I may depart therefrom in several respects within the scope of the invention defined by the claim following said description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure l is a top plan view of the buckle showing it associated with the strap.

. F ig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 33 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Like characters refer to like throughout the several views.

As I have already initimated, the buckle is capable of general used. I have mentioned one specific field of several in which it has been found of peculiar advantage. The buckle comprises a body as 2 which is practically fiat. At the forward end of the body 2 is a transverse lip 3 which extends uninterr ptedly from one side to the ther sidef5. These two sides or flanges 4E and 5 parts are parallel with each other, the ends of the lip 3 being integral with the forward ends of the sides a and 5. T is rear end of the body 2 is provided with a rearwardly ex- 7 tending lug 6 channeled in its upper surface as at 7 the channel extending entirely across the lug. This lug 6 as shown terminates in an eye which receives the forward bar of a link or loop' 9,the connection between the;

.ncc'ted the section 10 of a strap. This strap section 10 in the case of an overgaiter would be stitched or otherwise connected, to one side of the lower part thereof, the strap sec tionll being connected to the opposite side. The two sections 10 and 11 mate to present the strap. It is of course clear that I am not restricted to the use of the buckle in overgaiters as already made clear.

From the front ends of the sides or flanges 4: and 5, the ears 12 rise, these ears being in the planes of the respective sides 4 and 5. The cars 12 have perforations 18 functioning asI will later set forth. It will be clear that the perforations or holes 13 are in transverse register and are back of and above the lip 3. The body 2, its side flanges 4 and 5 with the cars 12 and the lug 6 and eye 8, I can form in a ready manner in a single piece by a dieing operation from sheet metal.

The buckle involves a tongue as 14- the tongue being practically flat and having at its ends the projections or studs 15 which enter and turn in when necessary, the respective perforations or holes 13. From this tongue 14 there extends rearwardly the 1nanipulating portion 16, the sides of which convergerearwardly. This tongue with its manipulating portion 16 and the projections or studs 15 can likewise be formed in a single piece from sheet metal. The manipulating portion 16 has a cam. 17 on its lower surface and a corresponding channel 18 on its upper or outer surface, and these can be easily produced by bending. When the tongue 14c is in operative position as shown in Fig. 3 for instance, it presses'the stock of the strap portion 11 downward firmly and substantially against the upper flat face of the body 2. The lower edge of the tongue 14: is serrated 01' toothed at 19 and this bites into the stock of the strap section 11 and of course aids in forcing the same firmly against the cross lip 3. The bowed or cam surface 17 also acts to cam the free portion of the section 11 downwardly and forwardly so that when the tongue 14- is in operative relation as shown best in Fig. 3, the strap will be solidly held. To release it a finger will be thrust under the free end of the manipulating portion 16 and the same raised so that the cam portion 17 will be moved out of contact with the strap portion 11 and the serrations or teeth 19 at the same time disengaged from said strap portion 11.

What I claim is:

A buckle comprising a body having side flanges, a hp at the front end of the body extending uninterruptedly from one of the flanges to the other, the flanges being provided at their front ends with upstanding ears having holes, and a flat tongue provided with studs extending through said holes and its lower edge being serrated and being back of and above the lip, the tongue having a rearwardly extending manipulating portion bowed on its under side to constitute a cam and press a strap passing between said side flanges against said body when the serrated portion of said tongue bites into said strap, the sides of said rearwardly extending manipulating portion c0nverging rearwardly and the rear end of the body having a rearwardly and upwardly extending lug terminating in an eye.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ANSON STEPHENS.

Witnesses CHARLES MAC LEOHMIN, VICTOR J. PoLL. 

